In the NBA, the "inmates" run the basketball asylum, the one with gilded walls and late-night room service in five-star hotels. The owners know it, the players know it, the fans know it ... and the guys wearing fancy suits on the benches have the scars to prove it. An embattled NBA head coach is readily identifiable.

Goodbye, Seattle; hello, Oklahoma City. Fewer coffee houses, definitely. More victories? It would be difficult to achieve fewer than 20 victories, the total for the SuperSonics last season on their way out of the Pacific Northwest.